Joshua,

That might be the average, but we've seen a few go bad sooner than that.

We pull Magstars out of our primary backup pools after 500 mounts.  If there has
been no problem reported by the tape, it goes on the shelf for use in our
archive process, which is a less-demanding process as we've implemented it.

Tab






"Joshua S. Bassi" <jbassi AT GLORYWORKS DOT COM> on 02/15/2000 11:40:29 AM

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Subject:  Re: magstar 3570 cartridges lifetime




What I have heard from IBM hardware out of Tucson for
the 3570 carts is a flat out 10 year tape life.


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Joshua S. Bassi
Joshua S. Bassi
Senior Technical Consultant
Symatrix Technology, Inc.
jbassi AT gloryworks DOT com
(503) 702-3371